After Dwight Eisenhower initiated the interstate highway system in the USA in the 1950s, there has been a steady effort to expand and "improve" it. In recent years, this has included adding highway lanes to "reduce" traffic problems. Click on the link below for a podcast that will help you understand the failure of this thinking in its stated goals and how other developed nations have done a better job in the planning of people movement in urban areas:
Why Do We Keep Widening Highways If It Doesn’t Reduce Traffic?Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Wednesday, November 23, 2022
Why Our Brains Tell Us There Is A God
Sunday, September 11, 2022
Are You Self-Aware Of HOW You Understand Reality?
Self-Awareness: how an individual consciously knows and understands their own character, feelings, motives, and desires. (Wikipedia)
One of the most difficult actions humans can take is to look at ourselves from the outside as others may see us without giving in to some of the cognitive biases that all of us tend to have. Some categories of opinions on reality that one can include in self-awareness are politics, economics, history, religion, and medicine.
- personal feelings/intuition/revelations
- objective evidence
Friday, July 17, 2020
Religious Intuition: It's Natural
How and why did religion evolve?
Do humans have a "religious instinct"?
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Science Is Not Intuitive
http://discountedscience.blogspot.com/2015/01/preface.html